Infrastructure Engineer – Cloud, CI/CD & High-Performance Backend

Perplexity; EE. UU.; A distancia; USD 110.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Perplexity is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will own core systems that power our products and development workflows, balancing reliability with speed.

This role blends infrastructure expertise with software engineering, requiring strong Python and Go skills and the ability to work across infrastructure and application-level code in a fast-paced environment.

Formación

• Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, performance tuning, and debugging.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD systems and tooling.
• Strong Python skills and fluency in at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C/C++, or Java).

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain robust, scalable infrastructure to support high-performance search systems
• Develop internal tools and automation to streamline developer workflows and operational efficiency
• Design, deploy, and operate cloud-native systems, primarily on AWS
• Improve and support CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and release processes
• Debug and optimize Linux systems, containers, and backend services
• Contribute directly to product codebases, working across Python, Go, and other systems languages

Conocimientos

Cloud architecture

Linux performance tuning

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Go

Systems programming

Descripción del empleo

Perplexity is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our small team revolutionizing the way people search and interact with the internet. You will own core systems that power our products and development workflows, balancing reliability with speed.

This role blends infrastructure expertise with software engineering, requiring strong Python and Go skills and the ability to work across infrastructure and application-level code in a fast-paced environment.